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NEWSLETTER Fall 2006
Message from the Library Director
In addition to being a faculty member, I am also
an alumna of Stetson University, and recently I
was asked to join the Alumni Board of Advisors.
These enthusiastic alumni met this fall, and as I
learned of how much they do for Stetson, I was
very impressed. In addition to the expected
financial support, these alumni are the
university's eyes, ears, and voice throughout the
country. They spread the word of Stetson's fine
qualities, help recruit good students, assist our
graduates with their careers, and maintain a
network which always connects to DeLand.
Members attending ranged from Peter Urscheler
('06), now working near Philadelphia, to Cortez
"Corky" Dannals ('46) of DeLand.
Peter told me of how pleased he is with the
library's web pages for alumni, including access
to the Proquest databases he had used so much
as a student. Associate Library Director Sue
Ryan has developed a number of pages of
special interest to our alumni. If you haven't
already bookmarked it in your web browser, take
a look at http://stetson.edu/library/alumni.php.
In the four brief years since I became Director
and asked Sue to supervise the Archives, she
and part-time Archives Specialist Gail Cohrs
Grieb ('67) have changed it from little more than
a poorly organized repository for university
papers to a treasure-trove of information on the
history of the university and those individuals
important in our history. Through proactive
collecting, organizing, indexing, and interpreting
of both documents and memorabilia, we are now
able to provide assistance to many from both on
and off campus (see Sue's story on the Stetson
mansion on page 4). In the process, we have
added many items and photos to our web site.
Marcia Baldwin Paulson ('60) and her husband
Roy ('59) visited campus recently and brought
some fascinating items for Archives, including
an Alpha Xi calendar from 1960 with photos of
twelve coeds in assorted poses (all circumspect
by today's standards) and now on our web site
http://stetson.edu/library/alumni alphaxicalendar.php.
Marcia also brought scrapbooks and even one
of her Chaudoin Hall "signout sheets" on which
girls needed to note where they were going and
with whom when leaving the dorm after 8 pm.
There would be a lot of memories in those
signout sheets if more could be found -
including mine.
A major addition to the Archives is now
displayed on the main floor of the library - one
of the Hulley Tower bells. In 1915, eleven solid
bronze bells, ranging in size from 575 to 3,000
pounds, were brought to Stetson and installed in
the Elizabeth Hall cupola as the Eloise Chimes,
honoring President Lincoln Hulley's wife. After
■ twenty years, it was
determined that they
caused too much
vibration to remain in
the cupola. In 1934,
they were moved to
the newly constructed
116-foot Hulley
Tower, the base of
which is the burial place of President and Mrs.
Hulley. For years, students in the School of
Music played the chimes every morning and
evening. In 2005, age and water damage made
the tower unsafe, and the bells were removed.
The tall tower was reduced to the 22-foot
mausoleum you now see. The bells were
distributed to different venues for preservation.
This bell, the smallest of the eleven, is engraved
"11." The cast bell also is engraved with the
factory name, McShane Bell Foundry, and
several quotations. The phrase facing west is
from Alfred Lord Tennyson's "In Memoriam":
Ring out the thousand wars of old:
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Betty Drees Johnson ('59, '62), Library Director
